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Saturday I went to USC to go to the library and get Into the Wild since it's our next book group book. As I was heading home I was ruminating about having nothing to do and Brian called me. We ended up going to the $3 theater to see The King of Kong. I always like seeing documentaries in the theater. What a great group of characters. I love that there is this whole conflict between taped scores and live scores. The thing that really struck me was how I could do a documentary like this. The only real expense is air travel and accommodation for the small crew. I'm thinking a unicycle documentary could be made in a similar fashion.They really lucked out though that Billy Mitchell turned out to be such a jerk. Also the grease pencil/training/drumming montage was incredible. ****. Afterward we had pizza and beer at the place across the street from Canter's. Then we came back to mine to discuss film scripts and things but ended up playing Wii Bowling.
Today started Into the Wild did laundry and watched All That Jazz. I'd seen it before, but I was so out of it before, too young and not into that type of movie. The musical numbers are really great. The inter-cutting of fantasy and reality is really cool. The Air Rotica number is sexy, but the whole film seems so dated which makes it a bit odd. ***.
Right after I watched Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders. I'm glad to be able to not use up my Netflix queue on a movie like this. I just wish the watch instantly movies looked better. Anyway I certainly didn't learn anything new about how predatory and terrible the credit industry is and how much our government panders to them. I get tired of these sorts of documentaries but it's good to get this sort of info out there. ***.
Now I'm going to bed even though I don't have to work until 2 tomorrow. If I get done early enough I might try to go to that class at USC I've been crashing.
Today started Into the Wild did laundry and watched All That Jazz. I'd seen it before, but I was so out of it before, too young and not into that type of movie. The musical numbers are really great. The inter-cutting of fantasy and reality is really cool. The Air Rotica number is sexy, but the whole film seems so dated which makes it a bit odd. ***.
Right after I watched Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders. I'm glad to be able to not use up my Netflix queue on a movie like this. I just wish the watch instantly movies looked better. Anyway I certainly didn't learn anything new about how predatory and terrible the credit industry is and how much our government panders to them. I get tired of these sorts of documentaries but it's good to get this sort of info out there. ***.
Now I'm going to bed even though I don't have to work until 2 tomorrow. If I get done early enough I might try to go to that class at USC I've been crashing.